Wednesday, January 16

Obama Flirting With Impeachment ... J. D. Longstreet

"Dear Leader" Obama is flirting with Articles of Impeachment. The power of the Presidential Executive Order is simply not robust enough to amend the constitution.

Look. The 2nd Amendment is was it is... period. You want to change it? The process is simple, but very difficult. It was meant to be both.

You
need the affirmative vote of 2/3rds of BOTH houses of Congress -- and
then -- it goes to the people of the states where 3/4's of the states
must vote for it (in the affirmative) in order to ratify it.

Please note that at no time is the office of the President involved.

The man who would be "King of America" may not be pleased about this, but, hey, things are tough all over!

So
far, Obama is playing his cards close to the chest and the MsM is, of
course, aiding and abetting him -- as is their wont for "progressive"
(otherwise known as Marxist) presidents.

The thing is -- we have
been hearing unconfirmed rumors for months, even during the Presidential
campaign that Presidential Executive Orders were in the making for gun
control during Obama's second term. Frankly, I would have been surprised
had they not been in a state of, shall we say-- "preparation" -- during
those months.

But Obama is going to have to tread softly ... VERY softly, indeed.

There ARE most certainly things Obama can order done with an EO. Neither amending the Constitution, or violating the Constitution, is among them.

In
an Article at Mother Jones authors Tim Murphy and Adam Serwer offer
fourteen things they say Obama can do without going through the
Congress:

Appoint a full-time ATF director.

Prosecute people who try to buy guns illegally.

Add a second serial number to new guns or improve placement of the first one.

Background checks for gun dealers' employees.

Don't let dealers who lose their license retain inventory.

Make gun sellers report details of sales to manufacturers.

Stricter regulations on inventory.

Require agencies to fork over data on mental health and drugs.

Require the FBI to contact state and local agencies in case of mental health rejections.

Investigate thefts of five or more guns—and make states report them.

Require dealers to track all trace requests.

Use existing data to figure out which gun shows are the worst—and target them.

Create a special DOJ unit to track interstate gun trafficking, abetted by state agreements.

Obama
and his cadre of legal eagles must know that anything he does
administratively that even appears as if it is infringing upon the 2nd
Amendment will draw fire and a possible move toward his impeachment.

On January 14th, The Washington Tines reported the following:

Rep.
Steve Stockman threatened on Monday to defund the White House and
potentially file impeachment charges if President Obama pushes forward
with gun control measures without congressional approval.

The Texas Republican called Mr. Obama's plans to skirt Congress and implement some controls administratively "an unconstitutional and unconscionable attack on the very founding principles of this republic."

This is where realism sticks its ugly head into the debate. There is virtually NO CHANCE of getting a conviction on impeachment charges against Obama through the US Senate. None.

(NOTE:
IMPEACHMENT is a formal document charging a public official with
misconduct in office. The House of Representatives can bring the formal
charges of impeachment -- but the Senate must decide the guilt or
innocence.)

So, the stage is being set for a
brawl. But what we are witnessing now is all Kabuki Theatre. No one
should kid themselves that Obama's people are burning the midnight oil
to laboriously writing the Executive Orders so as to pass constitutional
muster. No. I believe those EO's were written long ago and only
require dusting off and placing upon the public table.

The lines
have been drawn now. Obama is about to find himself up against most
of the republicans and a goodly number of his own political party in
this fight. If he isn't mindful, he may yet find himself in the dock
for his impeachment trial before the Congress.